The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there ( 2. 5 million gassed, and 500, 000 from disease and starvation ).

This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

On March 9, 1803, Henry Dearborn, the Secretary of War wrote to Colonel Jean Hamtramck, the commandant of Detroit, instructing him to have an officer and six men survey the route from Detroit to Chicago, and to make a preliminary investigation of the situation at Chicago.

In April, Whistler and other senior officers at the fort were removed ; Whistler was replaced as commandant of the fort by Captain Nathan Heald.

After two magazines caught fire, the commandant was summoned again to surrender ; there was some delay, but a flag of truce was sent at 2100, and the capitulation was concluded at 0100 the next day.

* Karl-Otto Koch ( 1897 – 1945 ), commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald

As a result, Zhou was a prominent figure at most Academy meetings, often addressing the school immediately after commandant Chiang Kai-shek.

* Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen

Karl-Otto Koch ( August 2, 1897 – April 5, 1945 ), a Standartenführer ( Colonel ) in the German Schutzstaffel ( SS ), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and later also served as a commander at the Majdanek concentration camp.

An officer of engineers who saw it wrote to the commandant of the École Royale du Génie at Mézières, recommending Monge to him and he was given a job as a draftsman.

At his release, the press eagerly awaited his arrival at the prison's South Gate, as promised by the prison commandant.

On January 9, 1790, Juan de Ugalde, governor of Coahuila and commandant of the Provincias Internas, led 600 men to a decisive victory over the Apaches near the site of modern Utopia at a place known then as Arroyo de la Soledad.

Tran Trong Duyet, a jailer at Hoa Lo beginning in 1968 and its commandant for the last three years of the war, maintained in 2008 that no prisoners were tortured.

Genevieve was transacted at Kaskaskia until about 1766 when the first commandant, Philippe de Rocheblave, was installed at Ste.

Many, commandant at Fort Jesup, then the most important settlement in the parish.

The post at Fort Jones was established by its first commandant, Captain ( brevet Major ) Edward H. Fitzgerald, E Company, 1st U. S. Dragoons.

During the American Civil War, Colonel Richard Owen was commandant in charge of Confederate prisoners at a camp in Indianapolis.

In 1835 Ugartechea was military commandant of Coahuila and Texas in command of the forces at Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, all the while struggling with deficiencies in funding, supplies, and manpower.

When rumours of his confinement at Kholmogory became more prevalent, he was secretly transferred to the fortress of Shlisselburg ( 1756 ), where he was still more rigorously guarded, not even the very commandant of the fortress knowing the identity of " a certain prisoner ".

After graduating from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he served as an instructor in tactics at the Infantry School, where the assistant commandant, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall called him " quiet, unassuming, capable, with sound common sense.

* 1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant ( b. 1906 )

* December 13 – Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ( executed ) ( b. 1906 )

Only a small number of SS men and women, including the camp commandant Kramer, remained to " uphold order inside the camp ".

Initially lacking sufficient manpower, the British allowed the Hungarians to remain in charge and only commandant Kramer was arrested.

Giles interviewed the camp commandant, Josef Kramer, who turned out to be aware of and an admirer of Giles's work.

Kramer served as commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there were French-run transit camps such as the one at Drancy.

The labor itself was of minimal travail ; Stanislav Leparsky, commandant of Petrovsky Zavod, failed to enforce Decembrists ’ original labor sentences, and criminal convicts carried out much of the work in place of the revolutionaries.

# Fritz Hartjenstein ( commandant ): death sentence ( died before sentence was carried out )

For example, in late September 1943, the commandant " Lysyi " wrote to the OUN headquarters: " On September 29, 1943, I carried out the action in the villages of Wola Ostrowiecka ( see Massacre of Wola Ostrowiecka ), and Ostrivky ( see Massacre of Ostrowki ).

In fall 605, after the completion of the Tongji and Han Canals, Emperor Yang carried out the first of 11 ( counting military campaigns ) tours that he would eventually undertake of various parts of the empire, going to Jiangdu — the capital of Yang Province, where he had been commandant previously — on an imperial ship that was said to be sufficiently large and luxurious to serve as floating palaces.

He had been attracting unfavourable reports from his superiors since taking charge of the fort in 1812 and was a notorious drunkard, but orders to replace him as commandant had not been carried out.

Captain John Whistler was selected as commandant of the new post, and set out with six men to complete the survey.

Camp commandant Fritz Suhren had brought her with him when he surrendered to the Americans in the hope that her supposed connections to Churchill might allow him to negotiate his way out of execution.

In the spring of 208, Lü Meng was tasked to be the navy commandant when Sun Quan set out to battle his nemesis Huang Zu again in the Battle of Jiangxia.

Under heavy bombardment the inhabitants requested the commandant to surrender, but putting his faith in his garrison, Huitfeldt held out.

Early in 1807, the Prussian Army sent Major von Gneisenau as commandant to Kolberg, which, though small and ill-protected, with the additional assistance of Schill and Nettelbeck succeeded in holding out against Napoleonic forces until the Peace of Tilsit.

" The main charge against Salomon Morel was that, as commandant of the Zgoda camp at Świętochłowice, he created for the prisoners in this camp, out of ethnic and political considerations, conditions that jeopardised their lives, including starvation and torture.

The survivors, under Major Russell, the commandant, were forced to fight their way out to a column of the North Zhob Militia which had been sent out to relieve them.

Pruss returned to Germany around October 1937, where he served as commandant of Frankfurt Airport as World War II broke out.

Hughes ' claims that, in Hobart " the suspicion that the commandant was out of control, that the island's remoteness from Hobart had permitted some cancer of his soul to metastasise wildly, could not entirely be allayed ".

Representatives from both fleets sought counsel with the Norwegian fortress commandant, Johan Caspar von Cicignon and the commander of the Norwegian forces Claus von Ahlefeldt, who for now decided to remain out of the dispute.

Seeing a use for him, the commandant assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp with the promise of a review of his case.